Dr. ALBERT HOFMANN was the man who discovered the psychotropic properties of the chemical compound he created called lysergic acid diethylamide. For all of us layman that’s simply LSD. I salute this man who lived for over one hundred years, but finally crossed over to the other side on April 29th. I have had some incredible moments when I was high on acid.
For those times I thank the good doctor. And my connect in East Harlem on Lex.
The checkered history of LSD is a great study in how the pharmaceutical industrial complex controls our government along with Big Oil, Big Labor (prison industrial complex), and Big Guns (weapons industrial complex). LSD, when properly administered was an effective treatment for several mental medical conditions. It has been revealed that the CIA performed clandestine experiments with LSD throughout the 1950’s up into the 1970’s. The problem with LSD was that unlike heroin and later crack cocaine, the addicts became less prone to violence against others.
The CIA prefers the car-window smashing depravity of the crackhead I suppose.
LSD and acid are firmly entrenched in our collective psyches as the narcotics for hippies and other 1960’s counter-culture platitudes, but the real benefit of the drug is that it was used as a cure for alcoholism. Its greatest achievement doomed its success here in America where we create thousands of alcoholics on a daily basis. Any drug that stops you from spending your money is not viewed as a good (read: profitable) drug.
I think I may have to go in for a hit one last time.
PrA’li before I peep the new Batman movie.
Dr. HOFMANN would have done it.
* UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE *
The founder of Baskin-Robbins is now on a road less rocky.
R.I.P.
